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As a late genx, my school didn't try to teach us how to read the clock. It was expected that our parents would tell us how.

I had to pester my parents and grandparents to tell me how, because I was the type to question how and why. Neither of my other two sisters bothered to question anything. While the middle sister is successful now, she never learned how to read a faced clock until she was like, 13, and only learned because she was gifted an expensive faced watch. I ended up living with my youngest sister in her 20's for awhile, and she was 23 before the mocking of her co-workers and boss at the time got to her and forced her to ask me how to read a faced clock. That's 3 hours of my life I won't get back.

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ok wait i saw my friend’s ao3 page the other day and they had like a thousand bookmarks and i have… like thirty. so im curious now please tell me how many ao3 bookmarks u have in tags

#2767

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I am, thankfully, discovering that a little mentioned side effect of long term use of my previous migraine medication, was suddenly developing allergy reactions.

Coincidentally, I had that med switched out because of the brain fog it caused about 2 years ago. It seems most of my milder reactions have vanished. You cannot imagine how much I'm praying to whatever that may care, that the shrimp allergy goes away too.

Shoutout to whoever it was who informed me a few weeks ago that some types of Zofran have stevia in them because I got to tell my doctor about it today, and he literally made this face behind his mask because he had no idea, and he is also stevia intolerant:

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not dying of natural causes

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Boycott them, they use scab workers and they always, always, attempt to starve out their strikers. Every time a contract is up, it takes a strike to get them to try and work on a new contract.

BOOSTING APRIL 2024 Active boycott notice!!!

Source

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I've seen pictures of this as an armchair version. From what I remember, it was some sort of Italian 1960/1970's trend. There's a more common version called a Joe Chair that looks like a baseball glove. But this style is described as an "Ok hand".

have i ever shown u people my hand sofa

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Fuck It, Internet Guide

Hey there! As social media becomes more and more inhospitible for the local user, I wanted to post some useful/fun links to just about anything I can think of! Enjoy! Also, if you'd like an invite to the P!rated Games discord, lmk! ^_^

I AM CURRENTLY STILL UPDATING THIS POST AND I WILL REBLOG IT WHEN I ADD TO IT! Feel free to comment things I've missed, I'm sure there's way more than this came from!

WEB CENTRIC

CURLIE: THE COLLECTOR OF URLs (Curlie strives to be the largest human-edited directory of the Web. You can save sites and create your own mini webring!)

Internet Archive (A collection of over 818 Billion websites, books, movies, music, and more. Hosts the Wayback Machine, which can be used to access a multitude of sites, given they were indexed in time.)

Wiby (Human submission search engine for older webrings, as well as a how-to guide on how to develop your own search engine)

Unicode Text Converter (Easy way to make your text illegible to Google but be warned, it will make screen readers malfuction)

Embed Responsively (Easily convert links and embeds to work responsively within your site - perfect for neocities!)

Generator Land (Generate a list or prompt for just about anything!)

GifCities (Part of the Internet Archive, a special project done as part of the 20th anniversary in an effort to save data from GeoCities. Find a gif for just about anything!)

Animated Images (Another gif repository, though this one is easier to search and includes small animations.)

Gifs-Paradise (Another gif repository. I swear I collect these. Searchable and categorized.)

ASCII Art Archive (Database of ASCII Art, also known as text art)

Christopher Johnson's ASCII Art Collection (Another, arguably larger, ASCII Art database)

MelonLand (A web project and online arts community that celebrates homepages, virtual worlds, the world-wide-web and the digital lives that all netizins share, here at the dawn of the digital age. See their thoughts and the WEB REVIVAL they're starting.)

Sadgrl Webrings (Webrings brought to us by Sadgrl.Online - 60+ different ones to be exact) and Sadgrl Links (70+ links just like the ones in this post)

Districts at Neocities (Remember neighborhoods on Geocities? Imagine that but for Neocities!)

Neocities Banners (Banners from all across neocities. Blinkies, banners and more leading all over the web. Mostly 88x31, though there are bigger ones too. Technically counts as a webring.)

Blinkies.cafe (Site for blinkies where you can even make your own! I get most of my blinkies here and off DeviantArt.)

88x31 Collection (Possibly the largest collection I've seen for 88x31 buttons)

90's Cursor Effects (Want a funky cursor for your blog or website? Wanna be able to realtime preview what cursors would look like? Come get some code!)

The Malware Museum (Interact with malware and viruses from the 80s and 90s through emulation! No nasty virus interactions needed :D )

KNOWLEDGE BASES

Library Genesis - LIBGEN (Scientific journals - dedicated to archiving every science journal and their articles in existence.)

Information Mesh (A web platform celebrating the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web that explores social, technical, cultural and legal facts throughout different interactive timelines.)

Web Design Museum (Over 2,000 sorted websites showing web design trends from '96 to '06.)

The History of the Web (A twice monthly newsletter about web history, and the incredible people that built it. Goes from 1989 to present.)

Field Guide to Web Accessibility (Principles and applications to every day web scenarios in order to make the web a more friendly place!)

CARI - Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute (an online community and collective association of researchers and designers dedicated to carrying on the important work of categorizing "consumer aesthetics" from the late midcentury, when work on the subject somewhat trailed off, through today.)

The Eye (Archive consisting of 140TB of books, websites, games, software, or anything else you can really think of.)

The Uncensored Library (A project from Reporters without Borders, where they use a loophole using Minecraft to distribute information.)

National Gallery of Art Public Domain (The National Gallery of Art has an open access policy for images of works of art in their permanent collection which the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. Images of these works are available for download free of charge for any use, whether commercial or non-commercial.)

Library of Congress Public Domain (Features items from the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.)

Public Domain Review (an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.)

New York Public Library Public Domain (Our digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over one million records for you to search, crawl and compute.)

Official articles from NASA (PubSpace is NASA's designated public access repository. It is a collection of NASA-funded scholarly publications within the STI Repository, aiming to increase access to federally funded research in accordance with NASA Public Access Policy.)

Universal Hint System (Wanna get some vague help for an older video game without getting spoiled? Check out these awesome hints!)

Smithsonian Open Access (Download, share, and reuse millions of 2D and 3D digital items from their 21 museums, 9 research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.)

Instructables (Wanna know how to make just about anything? Check here!)

QZAP Zine Archive (Archive of LGBT+ Zines, began in 2003 with zines dating back all the way to the 1970s. NSFW AT TIMES, BROWSE AT YOUR OWN RISK.)

P!racy Masterpost (Tumblr-based masterpost of game piracy, last updated 2021. A bit old but some of the stuff there is still good. If this link breaks, please contact me.)

P!rated Games Megathread (masterpost created by r/P!ratedGames includes required components as well as anything else you need. NOTE: PLEASE HAVE SOME SORT OF PROTECTION WHEN NAVIGATING THIS SITE)

Geocities Gallery (A website hosting a working archive for many abandoned Geocities Sites.)

Snipplr (Code Snippet repository. Great for coding issues.)

GeoCities (Archived) (Great for searching ancient webrings for gifs and website ideas. Not so great for downloads.)

Freeware Guide (Archived) (The Freeware-Guide died sometime in 2021 [we think March] but it's still full of VERY valuable information. Links are broken pretty much all the way through, but the names of software as well as what they do can be useful in finding them elsewhere thru some google searching)

Peelopaalu (Where I got a good handful of these links - AND THERE'S MORE!!!)

The Simple Site (More links to so much more cool stuff!)

ART TOOLS

Untitled - Paint (An in-browser version of classic Microsoft Paint!)

KidPix (In-browser version of classic KidPix for the public domain!)

Pixel Logic - A Guide to Pixel Art (Comprehensive guide to making cool art for $10 USD, updated semi-frequently and you get all new versions for free)

SAI - Bootlegged (A version of SAI with a multitude of brushes and textures pre-installed. Quite literally the only thing I use to draw aside from Clip Studio Paint.)

Stripe Generator (Need some easy stripes for an art piece? Can't be bothered to try and space stripes evenly? This is for you!)

Photopea (Free online photo editor supporting files for Adobe Photoshop, XCF, Sketch App, Adobe XD, and CorelDRAW, as well as many more!)

blender (A FOREVER free and Open Source software for 3D Modeling, full of tutorials and assets. I feel like most people don't know it's completely free to play with)

Vertex Meadow (A web-browser tool that renders 2D images as explorable 3D terrain. With it you can create detailed and unusual 3D environments to explore using a 2D paint-program-like interface.)

OpenGameArt (Need art for your game but you're not an artist? Consider checking here first [or just hire a real artist looking for work on here!])

MUSIC TOOLS AND DISCOVERY

BandLab (Social music platform that enables creators to make music and share their creative process with musicians and fans. Completely free with an option to set up stripe where you get 100% OF PROFITS. Available for apple/android/desktop)

JummBox (Free online beat-maker with a very simple interface that runs on your browser)

Mydora (Mydora is a continuous streaming player that gives you a deep dive into the lost archives of Myspace Music, based on some recovered data called the Dragon Hoard, with some additional metadata (most notably the locations and genres) from a different scan of Myspace conducted back in 2009. Contains 490,000+ songs, only a fraction of what was wiped out.)

Radiooooo (A place where people are able to play hit songs from the decade of their choosing from whatever country they wish.)

WFMU (Independent freeform radio broadcasting. Currently ongoing.)

Gnoosic (A sort-of music search engine that finds you songs/bands based off of your music taste.)

Khinsider (3.1 TB worth of video game soundtracks)

Radio.garden (Listen to thousands of radio stations all around the world.)

FUN STUFF

FrogLand (The purpose of Frogland is to show that the Internet can indeed provide a wealth of useful information and still be fun. Mainly, this site is dedicated to the many teachers out there who are finding new uses for the Internet as a tool for educating youngsters. Hopefully, it will inspire some young minds to find new interest in herpetology, biology, and environmental issues...not to mention providing some inspiration for young future computer "wizzes"! No longer active but still useful.)

Windows 98 icon Viewer (Want clear jpgs of all the Windows 98 symbols and icons? They're all here!)

GifyPet (Create your own embeded pet that people can play with and feed when they visit your page! See my version HERE [only works on desktop tho])

Ultimate Mushroom (Like the idea of picking mushrooms in your area but no idea what to look for? Check out this info hub!)

Gif Gallery (Another gif repositiory, only sorted by being numbered 1-100,000. Fun and silly, not so much useful unless you're looking for random gifs. Part of the MelonLand Webring)

Interesting DOS Programs (A host of DOS programming, guides and links.)

Internet Archive: MS-DOS Games (8,000 games right in your web browser! Your browser can play DOOM!)

Tiled Backgrounds (Need some small jpegs for easy website bg tiling? Browse this collection sorted by color.)

cOOl & EMO tEXt cOnVERTer xXX (Flashing warning. Wanna type like you're in the 2000s? Need a funny Green Day lyric as a caption? This is probably the best place for you.)

0x40 (Flashing Warning. Anime images synced with music. Fun for parties, lol)

WebGL Fluid Simulation (In browser fluid simulator, great for art backgrounds and desktop wallpapers.)

Flashpoint (The biggest collection of preserved Flash Games and Animations)

NCase (Free games and open source projects from Nicky [THESE ARE REALLY COOL AND FUN, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND])

Your World of Text (A huge interactive text doc that anyone can add to anonymously.)

Text To Speech (TTS in more than 30 languages and over 180 voices.)

ASCII Art Generator (Make ASCII Art from any image.)

Petit Tube (Random Youtube videos with less than 10 views)

Noclip Website (Noclip around various video game maps in your browser!)

Monster Mash (Create and animate some monsters in browser! You can also download their files.)

#research

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I will absolutely not eat 2, olives & snails(land snails - I will eat sea snails).

However...I should not be eatting another 8 things, at the risk of needing more than just a Benadryl someday, or because of other medication. The utter betrayal of my body deciding to riot against Shrimp is rage inducing.

I’m at 5 what about you?

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Same, but I convinced my way to a doctor that approved an Endometrial ablation.

It's a day surgery, and it basically means they go in and scrap up to something like 5mm of flesh off the inside walls of the uterus that's responsible for creating the blood cushion that becomes period blood, and thus, scaring it that can prevent future blood letting. The deeper the depth of the scraping, the higher the chance of never having any sort of blood letting period again. It's especially used for fibroids, polyp's and to treat frequent blood clots and bleeding outside of periods. The only thing they prescribe for you in the after care is basically Aleve and not being alone if you can help if for a few days while you heal up.

They don't like doing it to people under a certain amount of age - because the chances of getting pregnant afterwards is something like less than 5%, but if the only reason for a doctor to not agree to give someone an hysterectomy is because of complications - there's no reason why they shouldn't agree to an ablation.

I haven't had more than an occasional spotting since, it's been about 5 years now - tho I still notice the hormonal parts of the cycles.

my therapist was a bit shook by how much i detest my period, and i was shocked to find out out not everyone does....

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Anyone else?---

Anyone else been pavloved by the bell of a rice cooker to the point where you don't need a bell anymore? Or is it just me?

I'm using a new cooker pot that I got off amazon for cheap, and the dumb thing doesn't have a timer/stop function. It just turns on at a different heat level for each setting - and I find a don't need a timer. Turn it on, go back to the computer, and I get some, mental 'notification alert' in my brain that goes 'the rice is done'.

Then I started thinking about it, and even when I use the actual rice cooker, I haven't heard the bell go off in the longest time, because I'm always there to turn it off 1-2 minutes on the countdown.

#rice #rice is life #rice cooker

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For some reason, it's even funnier/amazing when you realize that Star Wars now belongs to Disney/Marvel, but yet, his day job, belongs to WB/DC.

Justice League Action | Missing the Mark | Episode 14: When famous actor Mark Hamill is kidnapped by master villain The Joker it will take all his voice acting skills to escape. (x)

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Good news, there's usually an artist for that wish.

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1533658820/gooseberry-and-currant-lampwork-glass?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=glass+currant&ref=sr_gallery-1-12&etp=1&edd=1&sts=1&organic_search_click=1

Red currants, pink currants, white currants

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Where I live, the downtown is quoted as 'walkable' - yet, outside of when the pedestrian mall is running, the only seats available to sit are for 'paying customers only', or at the steps into buildings.

walkable cities also means sittable cities send tweet

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Cupboard space is at a premium, and a bathroom cabinet(if I had one) would be to humid for meds - so I have a drawer for the general stuff, and personal meds are kept on my desk(no kids/roommates).

I keep a chinese tea cup on my desk to remind me to take my pills - it also helps me 'serve' the pills which I realize is touch aversion, and to take the pills, because I can't swallow pills without water.

recently saw ppl discuss whether they put their medicines in a kitchen cabinet or a bathroom cabinet and i was shocked by the fact that many ppl said kitchen cabinet. so now i need you to reblog this and say where you keep yours

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Youtube, why???

So, apparently, the "Inline playback" that happens when you put your mouse over a video title, automatically counts that video as part of your watch history.

So if your just scrolling thru your feed and your mouse lands on a video it plays.

Which explains why my rec feed has gotten so weird.

It also counts every Short that your dooming scrolling past, which isn't exactly fair because you have to scroll by them.

#youtube

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Out of sheer curiosity because my IRL social circle is made up of internationals and people from across the country and some of the things we call stuff here IS NOT what others expect.

#tumblr polls #polls #opinion poll

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Got cut off by a car again while on my bike yesterday.

Good news - Not serious, no damage to my bike this time, did not hit my head.

Bad news - I basically got body checked by an SUV, my shoulder and shoulder blade on that side is stiff AF, and I have a thumbprint size bit of what amounts to road rash on my chin. 

Why is this town like this? WTF. 

That being said, I’ve done worse to myself twisting my ankles. 

The town should really make that exit, right turn only because of the visibility problems. If you have to pull ahead of the cross walk to get visibility of oncoming traffic of a direction - you shouldn’t be turning in that direction.